Tag: #SOJ

  • Bottom or Top? (Pyramid)

    Hot muggy day which was perfect for kettlebells! YHC started with a warmup that had some abbreviated cadences to keep the PAX guessing, a great way to unlock the mind in the morning!

    Pyramid 1

    Set 1: 10 skullcrushers, run to cone and back. Set 2: 10 skull crushers, 10 high pulls, run to cone and back. Set 3: 10 skull crushers, 10 high pulls, 10 squat curl press, run to cone and back. Set 4 10 skull crushers, 10 high pulls, 10 squat curl press, 10 goblet squats, run to cone and back. Set 5 10 skull crushers, 10 high pulls, 10 squat curl press, 10 goblet squats, 10 bent over rows, run to cone and back.

    Then we took one exercise off of each set and worked our way through until none remained. Light mumble chatter on what was considered the top and the bottom…

    mosey to benches for next one.

    same as before but exercises were 10 rage pulls, 10 reaper twists, 10 bicep curls, 10 step ups, 10 wrist curls.

    mosey to side of school, squat against wall and do 10x front lateral raises. Did 10x-15x and then BTTF

    Homegrown Half, Kool Aid Convergence, Ruck CSAUP, Chili cook off hopefully in OctoberTBD

    Great push everyone, that was a grind today!

  • Parking lot fun for summer terr

    The humidity was back this morning but 13 HIMS didn’t mind. A short mosey with some karaoke prior to a circle up with the F3 mission. Warm up included the regulars with some light stretching.

    COP 1: Wilt Chamberlain: 50 LBCs, mosey 100 yards, 50 squats, mosey back to start, 50 flutter kicks dc, mosey 100 yards, and then 50 lunges (25 per leg)

    COP 2: 11s up the hill: mountain climbers and WW2

    COP 3: Charles Bronson: 3 cones; 1 and 2 about 100 yards apart, then cone 3 about 20 yards. Perform 25 reps of an exercise at cone 1, run to cone 2, then bear crawl to cone 3. Various exercises including merkins, CDD, monkey humpers, Alabama prom dates, American Hammers, and then 5 burpees.

    The pax circled up and planked for 30 seconds until time expired. Numbers. Names.

    Announcements: Home grown half and the Bridge this Saturday, Labor Day Convergence, CSAUP in September, Spartan in October – check slack for details

    Prayers for the Pax and everyone headed back to school including Fandango. Always a pleasure to lead you fellas. Have a great week.

  • Getting The Reps In

    Back to the speed work on The Graveyard Shift today! YHC hit the Swift Creek Middle track for some half mile repeats. After 1 mile warm up, goal was 725ish pace for each rep, followed by 90s rest. We were pretty successful, and got 6 reps in! Good to get out there and catch up with Big Rig while trying to get a bit faster. Trying to be ready for the Homegrown Half! Prayers for Big Rig as he has a family member going through some health issues.

  • Chasing a Wolf in the dark

    the graveyard shift was in full effect in the full on gloom yesterday early morning. Headlamps were needed for the track! YHC and Airwolf answered the call and hit the track for the following:

    Rolling 800s

    2 laps warm up

    The Thang
    2 laps 5k pace
    2 laps just slower than that that (1 min slower/mile)
    X3

    2 laps cool down

    4 miles total

    only audible was to go a bit faster for the “on” laps, and a bit more recovery on the “off” laps.

    Catching up a bit here. It was a good to catch up with Airwolf. Though YHC did not actually catch him anytime he decided to go fast.

  • The Traveling Jugalos

    A magnificent seven rode into town on 4 (or 6) cylinder stallions to assemble in the early gloom for another round of Ruckhenge. Four water jugs appeared from the bed of L Woods truck, but they would have to wait their turn while the PAX attempted to escape the rain on the Larus Park trails. After a swift 2.5 mile ruck we returned to those four lonely water jugs where we used our remaining 15minutes for a weighted triple check! Weighted squats, weighted merkins, and water jug farmers carry to time the rounds was the name of the game. The PAX took the challenge well and finished strong.

    Coffeerama at Einstein was superb as we discussed Herbert Muller’s assessment of Christianity’s role and reaction to societal changes in the west. Uses of the Past has been a great conversation starter on these Wednesday mornings and I hope you choose to join us even if you aren’t reading the book.

  • “I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast” Shooter McGavin

    Apparently, he was talking about Pool Boy and YHC. 4 Bermuda Boys made it out to Goyne Park for the latest Bermuda Triangle Beatdown. The temps were cool and the ground was moist. Not quite what we tend to expect on an August morning in Chester, but no one was complaining.

    We started with a mosey down to the lower parking lot, and some parking lot chasers, then circle up for an extensive warmarama. Your standard stuff, with a little extra emphasis on the legs.

    Mosey over to the football field for the Main Event. Yes, the main event came early on in the morning’s lineup, as we wanted everyone to be fresh, with no excuses. The event was a 100-yard Dash. Broadway decided to be the judge at the finish line, in case of a photo finish. Pool Boy and YHC decided to have another go at a sprint after Pool Boy left everyone in the dust on the final sprint last week. Shooter said he wasn’t going to race, but just run along with us.

    So on Broadway’s count, we were off. YHC got off to a fast first step surprisingly ahead of the swift Clydesdale Pool Boy. But just about 25 yards in YHC sees that Shooter was out front by several paces and Pool Boy was pulling ahead of YHC as well. YHC was looking for another gear, but it wasn’t there. Maybe the Pool Boy, and Shooter would run out of gas after 50 yards and YHC could make up the ground there. We made it past midfield, closing in on Broadway, but Shooter wasn’t giving any signs of slowing down and neither was Pool Boy. So Shooter made it to Broadway’s outstretched hand first, and a couple paces behind was Pool Boy, and a couple paces behind him, albeit in dead last, was YHC. So the title of fastest HIM at Bermuda, for now at least, goes to Shooter McGavin. The guy who said he wasn’t going to race. Well played sir.

    Following that, Pool Boy and Broadway led a couple COPs

    Some ground work in crab stance (leg raises and such)

    Broadway led some merkins and shoulder taps (I think)

    5 5 5s

    5 Bernies up the hill

    5 Pole Dancers at the top

    5 Side Straddle Hops at the bottom

    Mosey back to the flag

    Quadruple check kinda

    Timer runs to the speed bump and back

    Freddie Mercuries

    Shoulder Taps

    Runner’s knee ups

    Couple minutes of stretching and COT

    Homegrown Half and 10k at 6am and family friendly 5k Ruck at 7am on Saturday August 16th

    Prayers

    Prayers for anyone dealing with anything right now. Eastbound, a fellow PAX who hasn’t posted in awhile, had a friend who just took his own life. Prayers for his loved ones. Reach out to someone you haven’t seen or heard from in a while. It could make more of difference than you know.

  • R&R, the new normal

    Mid-60’s and breezy for another extremely peaceful Morning Wood – ample time to think, pray, and reflect on a missions project we’re partnering with in Papua New Guinea. After 30min rucking, returned to the Taco for some water and Woodsman arrived to drop a load of coupons on the grass hill. YHC convinced him to join a run of the green loop circuit, and he gamely participated in 2 loops while YHC (feeling no IT band pain) went for a third loop, total of 2.14mi with an improved VO2 Max of 54, up from last weeks 2-loop run. Overall excellent Morning Wood warmup for the Woodsman Beatdown to follow. Plenty of room for growth in this running game – maybe will shoot for 4 loops next week and just keep going up to see if we can outgrow this IT Band problem. Yours AYE! ~DTH

  • Challenge accepted

    It was a beautiful morning with pink and purple skies with temperatures in the high 60s, perfect for my first Q at Rock N Roll. Yesterday at Satan’s Hill, Mudslide and Purple Rain challenged me to take the Q. So challenge accepted and we were off. 10 HIMS were present for this morning’s beat down.

    A short mosey down the loop to an empty parking lot for the warm up which included SSH, imperial walkers, Ukrainian soldiers, cherry pickers, LBCs, merkins, and some various stretches.

    COP 1: mosey to the tennis courts for a 4 corners, prostitute style: 10 merkins, 20 plank jacks, 30 LBCs, 40 SSH

    COP 2: mosey back down the loop to the parking lot for the “shortest mile”. Stole this from Warby and modified. Mario jumps, lunges, bear crawl, and broad jump burpees to make 1 lap. 2 laps were completed.

    COP 3: Time for some coupons, Dora style. YHC borrowed some coupons from Satan’s Hill for a surprise. Partnered up for 100 overhead press, 150 curls, and 200 dead lifts. Runner around the parking lot.

    COP 4: I had planned for a triple check but audibled due to a DTH request. There were 10 HIMS and 10 coupons, so I modified. Chest press x 20 reps, then American Hammers x 20 (SC), then carry the coupon to the top of the hill and back down, however you can.

    COP 5: slowsey back to the flag and circled up for a Mary of various ab exercises including flutter kicks (DB), oblique LBCs both sides, LBCs, scissor kicks, merkins and etc.

    Mudslide took the last few minutes for some BROGA. Then Numbers. Names.

    Announcements: Home grown half, CSAUP, Labor Day Convergence, Spartan -> Check Slack for details

    Wins. Prayer requests. And then YHC took us out in prayer. Such a great morning for a beat down, the weather was perfect. Great job fellas. There isn’t a better way to start the weekend. Pleasure to lead you guys and to cross off another AO Q. Enjoy the weekend!

  • THE…state university of Ohio

    13 grown-boys showed up to The Woodshed this morning expecting a classic Nancy Lopez beatdown but YHC had other plans. After seeing that Nancy had his Q taken from him last Friday at Satan’s Hill, YHC felt that it was necessary to reunite the flags.

    WARMARAMA – Went for a mosey that was longer than the cumulative running that Nancy had in mind. Circled up, gave the mission, explained the Ghost Flag and stretched out. Extra stretches today 😉

    COP #1: Ohio State fun facts on the field

    • Marcus Freeman (GO IRISH!) was a linebacker for OSU and wore #1. Therefore, each of the exercises below came after QTY (1) run to the other end of the field and back. ~200 total yards.
      • (7) Merkins for the WR wearing #7 that drew a BS PI call in the 2003 Natty.
      • (13) Squats for Maurice Clarett’s (13) game suspension in 2003. (2) burpees for his (2) felonies.
      • (12) Merkins for the (12) wins that were vacated in 2010
      • (5) Burpees for Terrell Pryor’s 5-game suspension in 2010
      • (6) Squats for Ezekial Elliot’s (6) game suspension for his actions at OSU
      • (3) Burpees for Urban Meyer’s (3) game suspension in 2018
      • (31) LBC’s for the (31) confirmed arrests at UF while under Urban Meyer

    COP #2: 4 Corners

    YHC asked Nancy how many total wins that the OSU program has. He came really close but the answer was 978. Solid total but only good enough for 2nd all time. Who’s first? It took two guesses but Nancy got it…but mispronounced the name. YHC was looking for “The team up North” rather than the “M” word so the PAX suffered (5) additional burpees at each corner.

    • Corner #1: (9) Arm Circles + (5) Burpees
    • Corner #2: (7) CDD’s + (5) Burpees
    • Corner #3: (8) Squats + (5) Burpees
    • Corner #4: (5) Burpees

    COP #3: Triple Check

    • YHC handed the remaining (8) minutes to Nancy.
    • Pacer: Run to the end of the parking lot and back
    • Exercise #1: LBC’s
    • Exercise #2: Imperial Walkers

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • Home Grown Half – hit up a leader for details
    • September overnight ruck – hit up Crabgrass for details
    • New routine at Timberwolf starting in September

    PRAYERS/WINS

    • None spoken but plenty to be thankful for!

  • Happy Birthday Mom

    A Magnificent Seven came out to Goyne Park for a birthday celebration. YHC wanted to make sure the PAX knew the date and age of his mother, so all sets were either 7, 29, 55 (as in 1955), and 70 reps

    After a brief warmup (maybe too brief) We started with 7 sprints across the cowpasture. Pool Boy was sandbagging, because he left us all in the dust on the last sprint.

    Then to the pavilion for 29 chair dips

    to the yoga mat for 29 heels to heaven, 7 WW2s, 29 American Hammers, 7 burpees

    Back to the parking lot for hydration

    Circle up

    55 Side strattle hops, 29 Nancy Kerrigan’s (each leg), 29 merkins and Pool Boy’s idea Side Straddle Squats (pretty much, what it sounds like) pretty tough after 12 reps

    To Pole Alley for 70 Heels to Heaven, and 29 Pole Dancers, then finish up with 70 Alabama Prom Dates.

    Great job this morning by the PAX. Congrats to Pool Boy on reaching his epic plateau of 50 lbs of weight loss and cracking the 250 lb mark!